[Athen] [EXT] Favorite PDF to HTML converter

[Michael Nakai]

We have ABBYY FineReader that we use for processing textbooks. It has HTML
Export and as an OCR program can read out text from images in a PDF.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:48 PM Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) <
hunziker at arizona.edu> wrote:


> Hi all,

>

> Please reply to the list - We're also trying to move campus away from PDFs

> for sharing basic information that would be better in HTML format...

>

> Thank you,

> Dawn

>

> Dawn Hunziker

> IT Accessibility Consultant, Sr. | Disability Resources

> The University of Arizona | hunziker at arizona.edu

> drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu

> 520-626-9409

>

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> Behalf Of Terrill Thompson

> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 11:33 AM

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> Subject: [EXT][Athen] Favorite PDF to HTML converter

>

> External Email

>

> Hi All,

>

> We're actively encouraging folks to choose HTML over PDF, which in many

> cases means converting existing PDFs into HTML. To support that, does

> anyone have a favorite PDF to HTML converter?  A Google search reveals a

> few zillion choices, and I'm afraid to try most of them as doing so could

> be a spyware risk.

>

> I know we can Save As > Other > HTML from Adobe Acrobat, but the output is

> less than ideal.

>

> Thanks for any suggestions!

>

> Terrill

>

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> University of Washington

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